For more than
four years after retiring from
cricket in 1992, Khan focused his
efforts solely on
social work. By 1991, he had founded the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust, a charity organization bearing the
name of his mother, Mrs. Shaukat Khanum. As the Trust's
maiden endeavor, Khan established
Pakistan's first and only cancer hospital, constructed using donations and funds exceeding $25 million, raised by Khan from all over
the world.[2]
Inspired by the memory of his mother, who died of cancer, the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research
Centre, a charitable cancer hospital with 75 percent
free care, opened in
Lahore on December
29, 1994.[4] Khan currently serves as the chairman of
the hospital and continues to raise funds with the
help of
celebrities such as
Sushmita Sen,[12]
Elizabeth Hurley,[13] and several members of the
Indian cricket team.[14] During the 1990s, Khan also served as UNICEF's Special Representative to support health and immunization programmes in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri
Lanka and
Thailand.[15]
Currently, Khan has been working on two major social projects. He is building another cancer hospital in
Karachi, using his successful Lahore institution as a model. He is also helping establish a technical
college in the
Mianwali District, called Namal
College, with the collaboration of
University of Bradford in
UK. The Namal College is being
built by the Mianwali Development Trust (MDT), and was
made an associate college of the University of Bradford in December 2005 when
Imran Khan and the University's vice-chancellor, Professor
Chris Taylor, signed a memorandum of understanding.[16] While in
London, Khan also works with the Lord’s Taverners, a cricket charity
; "Imran Khan")
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